Psalms 78:4-18

⁴We will not keep them from their descendants. We will tell the next generation about the praiseworthy deeds of Yahweh, his strength, and the wonders that he has done.

⁵For he established covenant decrees in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel. He commanded our ancestors that they were to teach them to their children.

⁶He commanded this so that the generation to come might know his decrees, the children not yet born, who should tell them in turn to their own children.

⁷Then they would place their hope in God and not forget his deeds but keep his commandments.

⁸Then they would not be like their ancestors, who were a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation whose hearts were not right, and whose spirits were not committed and faithful to God.

⁹The Ephraimites were armed with bows, but they turned back on the day of battle.

¹⁰They did not keep the covenant with God, and they refused to obey his law.

¹¹They forgot his deeds, the wonderful things that he had shown them.

¹²They forgot the marvelous things he did in the sight of their ancestors in the land of Egypt, in the land of Zoan.

¹³He divided the sea and led them across it; he made the waters to stand like walls.

¹⁴In the daytime he led them with a cloud and all the night with the light of fire.

¹⁵He split the rocks in the wilderness, and he gave them water abundantly, enough to fill the depths of the sea.

¹⁶He made streams flow out of the rock and made the water flow like rivers.

¹⁷Yet they continued to sin against him, rebelling against the Most High in the wilderness.

¹⁸They challenged God in their hearts by asking for food to satisfy their appetites.